QUIRK

noun a fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice.

2. quirk ·noun an irregular air; as, light quirks of music.

3. quirk ·noun a smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.

4. quirk ·noun a small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.

5. quirk ·noun a piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, ·etc.;

— sometimes written quink.

6. quirk ·noun a sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.